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A counter-antidote, to purge out the malignant effects of a late counterfeit, prepared by…
A counter-antidote, to purge out the malignant effects of a late counterfeit, prepared by Mr. Giles Shute ... being an answer to his vindication of his pretended Antidote to prevent the prevalency of Anabaptism, showing that Mr. Hercules Collins's reply to the said author remains unanswered : wherein the baptism of believers is evinced to be God's ordinance, and the baptized congregations proved true churches of Jesus Christ : with a further detection of the error of pedo-baptism : to which is added, An answer to Mr. Shute's reply to Mr. Collins's half-sheet / by Benjamin Keach.A counter-antidote, to purge out the malignant effects of a late counterfeit, prepared by Mr. Gyles Shute ... being an answer to his vindication of his pretended Antidote to prevent the prevalency of Anabaptism, shewing that Mr. Hercules Collins's reply to the said author remains unanswered : wherein the baptism of believers is evinced to be God's ordinance, and the baptized congregations proved true churches of Jesus Christ : with a further detection of the error of pedo-baptism : to which is added, An answer to Mr. Shute's reply to Mr. Collins's half-sheet / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed for H. Bernard, 1694
Chapter 3: Proving that Infants of Believers, as such, are not in the Covenant of Grace God made w…
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I Shall pass by several things in your Answer, because they are over, and over, fully answered, in our late Treatise wrote on this Controversy, as that in page 44. of your Book concerning Federatal Holiness, from 1 Cor. 7. 14. See our Answer to the Athenian Society, and Rector Rectified, and that in page 71. about the promise, Acts 2. 38. But to proceed.
I Shall pass by several things in your Answer, because they are over, and over, fully answered, in our late Treatise wrote on this Controversie, as that in page 44. of your Book concerning Federatal Holiness, from 1 Cor. 7. 14. See our Answer to the Athenian Society, and Rector Rectified, and that in page 71. about the promise, Acts 2. 38. But to proceed.
This first of all the Reader is desired to consider of, and that carefully, that our Adversary hath dealt very unfairly with my Reverend Brother Collins, I hope it is through his Ignorance or great oversight, viz. first, he positively concludes and takes it for granted, that Mr. Collins hath endeavoure• […] •rove the Covenant of Grace which God made with, or rather promise`d to Abraham is disannulled and taken away. Secondly, that Mr. Collins by his often repeated distinction of the Covenant of peculiarity God made with Abraham, doth mean and intend the Covenant of Grace, when this is as far from his intention and expressions any where in his Book or Judgment, as the East is from to the West: I have seen many Men undertake in Controvertible Points, but never saw any (except one) abuse his Antagonist worse, nor after such a sort; 'tis evident there was two Covenants contained in those transactings of God with Abraham, one peculiarly respected only his Natural Seed or Off-spring, as such, which Mr. Collins calls the Covenant of peculiarity, (as others have done before him) which Circumcision was a Sign of, and this he hath proved, was not the Covenant of Grace which God promised to Abraham for the Covenant of Grace God Promised to him, did not peculiarly relate to Abraham's Natural Seed that were Elect Persons; but to all the Gentiles also, who believe in Christ; for that comprehends none but the Elect, or the true Spiritual Seed of Abraham, as such. Reader, if you read Mr. Collin first Book, or his answer to Mr. Shute, you will find this is as plainly laid down by him, as any thing could well be: I am afraid that this Man`s over heated Zeal would not suffer him distinctly to read over, and seriously weigh, what Mr. Collins hath wrote and said upon this account, before he attempted to write an Answer, for through' this gross mistake (as one that hath read Mr. Shutes Book, observed and told me) he hath wrote near twenty Leaves to no purpose, i. e. to prove that which no body denies, viz. that the Covenant of Grace God promised to Abraham, is not dissolved, cast out, or disannulled, but abides the same forever, which we all as steadfastly believe as Mr. Shute, therefore he has but set up here on this respect, a Man of Straw, and then fights with it; And upon search and examination of Mr.